Shootouts across Bangladesh left nine alleged drug dealers dead today, police said, as authorities stepped up a crackdown that now has claimed at least 52 lives in 10 days and drawn criticism from rights groups.

About 150,000-200,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar are at risk from flooding and landslides during the monsoon season, the UN has said. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters here on Tuesday that more than 7,000 Rohingya refugees were affected by storms or landslides earlier this month, at the start of the monsoon season. The monsoons typically deposit 2.5 meters of rain on Cox’s Bazar, resulting in significant flooding. As a result,...

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya fled to Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh in the past nine months after a Myanmar military crackdown that the United Nations, United States and Britain have denounced as ethnic cleansing.

SpaceX lifted Bangladesh's first satellite into orbit Friday using an upgraded rocket designed for dozens of repeat flights including back-to-back, same-day launches. This newest booster landed on an ocean platform following liftoff as planned. (May 11)